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David Crow

I make sawdust.

"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it." - Ellen Goodman

"To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne

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Mike Hankey wrote:

Carpentry, plumbing, electrical, sheet rock, paint, concrete, roofing, trim, tile, wood floors, A/C, window replacement, computer hardware and programmer!

We've got a guy coming in a few weeks to replace the floor boards in the upstairs rooms. He's going to take out the mess that is there, put down a ply wood subfloor and then glue and secret nail 80mm tallow boards. He'll then leave it for a few weeks to acclimatise to the moisture level in the house and return to sand and polish. Between the laying and sanding I need to replace all the door trims as the new floor will be about 10mm lower than the exsting. The walls are rendered brick and a lot of the render is "drumy". Any advice on how I can get the old door trims off without disturbing too much of the old lime render? I leart the hard way when painting that drummy render should be left alone!

Steve Echols

I'm the back end for my wife's cookie company. Do a lot of graphic design, marketing, research, packaging and shipping. Not really a profession, more like "do it or else" type work, and hey, who doesn't like bubble wrap? :-).

- S 50 cups of coffee and you know it's on!

Rajesh R Subramanian

Are there any openings for me? :-D

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero .·´¯`·->Rajesh<-·´¯`·. Codeproject.com: Visual C++ MVP

Fernando A Gomez F

Why yes, but to be accepted within the guild you need to provide its members (aka me) with a couple of :beer:. :D

Stupidity is an International Association - Enrique Jardiel Poncela

Rajesh R Subramanian

Here ya go :beer: :beer: Hope I'm into the club.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero .·´¯`·->Rajesh<-·´¯`·. Codeproject.com: Visual C++ MVP

Fernando A Gomez F

Ah, welcome to the guild. Were them Lion or Golden Eagle?

Stupidity is an International Association - Enrique Jardiel Poncela

GuyThiebaut

Amazing I'm a pheasant plucker, or is that a pleasant... :-O

You always pass failure on the way to success.

Smithers Jones

engineer in natural sciences. i just stumbled upon programming during my studies and since there are no "real" software developers here (none that did study that stuff), i stayed tuned to it, even though i am just a hobbyist.

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." (DNA)

Pete OHanlon

GuyThiebaut wrote:

I'm a pheasant plucker

Dad!

Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.

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Storm blade

leppyr64 wrote:

lighting tech

Out of interest, what kind of lighting desks do you use?

balta2ar

It's not profession but rather hobby: I play piano ;)

Sebastian Schneider

Well, not exactly a profession, because I don't get paid, but I am a volunteer firefighter. I am SCBA certified, but not a team-leader yet (I don't have the time to do the courses). I also am trained in technical rescue (extraction, etc.). I also used to be a call-center-agent (yes, I was one of the bad buys, but I got fired because I refused to lie) and a technician for hand-held computers (PSION workabout MX, Blackroc P60) which are used to print traffic tickets. (You gotta love cops: One officer dropped his handheld. Instead of getting out of the car, he decided that rolling over it was a better idea. After he finished, he still couldn't get to it from his seat, so he rolled over it AGAIN.)

Cheers, Sebastian -- "If it was two men, the non-driver would have challenged the driver to simply crash through the gates. The macho image thing, you know." - Marc Clifton

GuyThiebaut

Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

Dad!

To be sung after a beer or two Clickety :-\

You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mike Hankey

Josh,

Josh Gray wrote:

Any advice on how I can get the old door trims off without disturbing too much of the old lime render? I leart the hard way when painting that drummy render should be left alone!

I've never worked with "Old Lime Render" but I'm assuming its comparable to plaster that we use here. They put lathe strips on the wall and then trowel on an under layer then a finish layer. In these cases you need a razor knife and a small thin pry bar and a light hammer. You'll have to basically cut out the old trim by taking the razor knife and cut the outside and inside of the trim. Score it real good then gently tap/sometimes rather sharply from the WOOD side force the pry bar between the joint and pry away. As you're prying watch the Rendered side to be sure that it is scored/cut deep enough that you are not harming or pulling anything else with it. In cases like this you have to just be gentle but firm! Thats about the best advice I can give you! But if you have any other questions feel free to ask! Good Luck, Mike

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. "George Carlin

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Fabio Franco

And today is the day for another load of beer.

Gary Wheeler

Chef, psychotherapist, chauffeur, veterinarian, track coach, financier, math and science tutor, launderer. Other roles as needed. Yes, I'm a professional father :-D.

Software Zen: delete this;

JohnReese

I'm a published composer. I earn about ten bucks a year in royalties. I earn somewhat more than that coding software. --John

codemunkeh

Volunteer for a Church. I take the sound guy part most seriously, followed by the youth work. Also a student.

Ninja (the Nerd)
Confused? You will be...

Joe Q

Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:

I'm a professional beer drinker.

I'm try to keep from messing up my amatur status at beer drinking. Beerfest anyone?

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